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Don't know where to ask this question, so here seems best. Anyway, I know that investors are subjected to a limitation on the amount of options/futures contracts they can hold. My question is: are institutions, such as hedge funds, also subjected to this limitation or can they hold an...

And compounding interest is not even taken into account.

At that rate, in slightly more than 15 years you'll be the world's richest man. 30,000% ror per 5 years with 40% tax. 1) first 5 years: 902,000 after tax 2) 5 years after: 162,720,800 3) another 5 years after: 29,354,832,320 At this rate, if you teach your kids your method of...

With the kind of money you spending on commissions so far, 5k is actually peanut to you. It's like giving a beggar a nickle for ...(what can one buy with a nickle?)

Commission? Eh? Oh, did I fail to mention that? As with all services my friend, there are always commissions. Nothing is free. Holding on to the money is an extra burden I don't really have to bear. Consider it a cost of carry if you will. I normally take cash as there is no money...

So, after 80 something posts in this thread...who makes money and who loses?

Who's going to guarantee payment? Why don't you both send me 5k, and I'll hold it for you. I give it to whoever wins :)

Didn't want to say much here, but this thread amuses me. Although, I do believe that ford will probably go up as the market rallies a little over the next couple days (i think), but there is no such a thing as a free trade (with the exceptions of arbitrage, market making, and insider trading)...

It's ok Electric. I took a nap and lost back half of the profits I made on Tuesday and Thursday. Slow days make me so sleepy.

Been waiting to short the index this whole week.

Check the website.

Maybe I'll try to reverse engineer his strategy using his performance summary. Want to see if my system or his is more robust.

Is it one of tradestation's built-in strategies? I know I've seen it somewhere before, but I don't quite remember. The corresponding numbers (0,1,-1) next to the up/down arrows tell me that it is likely to be a built-in strategy or study. I don't have tradestation, so I don't...

Should have been more clear. I am not talking about the RSI indicator on the bottom of the screen. I am referring to the indicator on the price chart.

This is his performance summary. http://www.trade2win.com/boards/attachment.php?attachmentid=5038

The guy who posted this chart said there's something better than stochastics. So I am a little curious...and his performance was pretty good.

File didn't get attached. It's too big. Here's the link to it. http://www.trade2win.com/boards/attachment.php?attachmentid=5033

You can never predict with certainty if the market will trend or go sideways for any particular day. But you can guess with a high probability based on previous market behaviors. Generally, news tend to move the market. Earning releases month will generally be volatile. Before you trade...

Sorry, didn't verify my previous link. Here's the direct link. http://www.tradeguider.com/masterthemarkets/mtm2.pdf

This is a pretty decent e-book, which I think would be helpful to some of you. It's about 12MB, which is too big to attach here. I am not promoting anything (the book seems to talk alot about TradeGuider software though). Keep whatever is good, and throw out the rest! This is the direct...